Soren Harward on 18 Sep 2007 19:57:59 -0000 |
On 9/18/07, Chad Vogelsong <csv@gamebox.net> wrote: > I've found the applications below and am just looking for opinions on > use. Who thinks which one is better and why? If anybody has other > suggestions, I would be happy to add it to the list. I've been using Gnucash for about three years now. "Double-entry bookkeeping" sounds intimidating, but it takes all of about 20 minutes to learn, Gnucash does 90% of the work for you, and the practice pays off big time when you decide to do any kind of analysis, budgeting, or forecasting. The only major complaint I have against Gnucash: it doesn't manage securities (eg, stocks) very well. It will keep track of them, and can even download share prices from Yahoo finance. But calculating capital gains/losses is a headache. The programmers keep saying that they're working on this part of the program, but so far, the badly-needed enhancements haven't showed up. If you do a lot of securities trading and want to track it in detail, then you're going to want something besides Gnucash. -- Soren Harward ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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